Quality Score metrics

The Quality Score Metrics facet reports the distribution of quality scores at each position. The report is delivered at under the quality_scores key within the results.json file. You can easily examine the output of the general facet by using jq:

cat results.json | jq .quality_scores

Outputs

This facet has the following top-level keys,

Key	Description
scores	Contains one entry per nucleobase position in the record. At each position, contains a histogram representing the distribution of quality scores at that position across all records.

Scores

Contains one entry per nucleobase position in the record. At each position, contains a histogram representing the distribution of quality scores at that position across all records. For example, if you were to lookup "1" in the scores key, that would give you a histogram representing the distribution of quality scores at position 1 for all records in the file.